[Comparative study of cefaclor versus amoxicillin in urinary tract infections (author's transl)].

abstract：:Bacterial meningitis of infants and children exact a major toll worldwide. Haemophilus influenzae, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Neisseria meningitidis continue to be the major causes, and efforts to reduce the incidence of this disease have had limited success. Major advances in rapid diagnosis, such as antigen detect...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Marks MI

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Raoultella planticola is a rare opportunistic pathogen usually invaded immunocompromised patients and sometimes even causes fatal infections. Recently, there is growing concern about the emergence of carbapenem resistance in this species. Here, we describe one case of hospital-acquired pneumonia due to a carbapenem-re...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Xu M,Xie W,Fu Y,Zhou H,Zhou J

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) is a well-defined clinical syndrome attributed to certain exotoxins produced by Staphylococcus aureus. The acute episode is often characterized by a toxic encephalopathy, possibly caused by direct neurotoxicity of these exotoxins, although this mechanism has never been proven. We describe a ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Arend SM,Steenmeyer AV,Mosmans PC,Bijlmer HA,van't Wout JW

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary edema is a recognized complication of Plasmodium falciparum malaria but is uncommon with Plasmodium vivax infection. We report the case of a non-immune adult with imported P. vivax malaria who developed pulmonary edema during treatment. The case was further complicated by a recurrent malaria episode after fa...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Illamperuma C,Allen BL

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Shoulder arthroplasties are increasingly performed, but data on periprosthetic joint infections (PJI) in this anatomical position are limited. We retrospectively investigated the characteristics and outcome of shoulder PJI after primary arthroplasty from 1998 to 2010 in a single centre. METHODS:Periprosthetic ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Achermann Y,Sahin F,Schwyzer HK,Kolling C,Wüst J,Vogt M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal microsporidiosis with Enterocytozoon bieneusi was diagnosed in three of 18 HIV-infected patients with chronic diarrhoea. In two cases all known stages of the life cycle of E. bieneusi (merogonial plasmodia, sporogonial plasmodia, sporoblasts, spores) were found in duodenal biopsies by electron microscopical...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Franzen C,Fätkenheuer G,Salzberger B,Müller A,Mahrle G,Diehl V,Schrappe M

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To identify risk factors associated with mortality in patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) caused by S. pneumoniae who require intensive care unit (ICU) management, and to assess the prognostic values of these risk factors at the time of admission. METHODS:Retrospective analysis of all conse...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Que YA,Virgini V,Lozeron ED,Paratte G,Prod'hom G,Revelly JP,Pagani JL,Charbonney E,Eggimann P

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We examined lymphocyte apoptosis, activity of caspases-1, -3, -8 and -9 and the relationship between those two events and inflammation response in septic shock. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Blood samples were obtained within 24 h after diagnosis of septic shock from 16 patients to measure apoptosis, caspases-3, -8...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Delogu G,Famularo G,Tellan G,Marandola M,Antonucci A,Signore M,Marcellini S,Moretti S

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen adult patients with uncomplicated urinary tract infections (UTI) caused by gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria were treated with 2 g mezlocillin daily by i. m. injection for an average of eight days. Clinical examinations were performed daily; bacteriological and laboratory controls (blood and urine) wer...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Coimbra F

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) recurs in nearly one-third of patients who develop an initial infection. Recurrent CDI (RCDI) is associated with considerable morbidity, mortality, and cost. Treatment for RCDI has not been not well examined. METHODS:A systematic review. RESULTS:Sixty-four articles wer...

journal_title：Infection

authors： O'Horo JC,Jindai K,Kunzer B,Safdar N

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assay described is an agar diffusion test using Bacillus stearothermophilus as test organism. Incubation is at 62 degrees C; results can be obtained rapidly within 2 to 3 hours. The test was developed for the determination of gentamicin concentrations in serum and other body fluids. Because of its high sensitivity...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Wahlig H

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In January 2015, we noticed by rectal swab analyses that seven of 23 patients at an early rehabilitation ward had been colonized with carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CKP). Here, we describe risk factors for CKP acquisition. METHODS:In the present study, the outbreak is described and risk factors fo...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Borgmann S,Pfeifer Y,Becker L,Rieß B,Siegmund R,Sagel U

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is defined as S. aureus genetically having the mecA or mecC genes or phenotypically showing minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of oxacillin higher than 2 mg/L. However, recently, cefoxitin/oxacillin-susceptible mecA-positive S. aureus (OS-MRSA) has been rep...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Saeed K,Ahmad N,Dryden M,Cortes N,Marsh P,Sitjar A,Wyllie S,Bourne S,Hemming J,Jeppesen C,Green S

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Although limited data exist on the efficacy and potential risk of synergistic aminoglycoside therapy for persistent Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and endocarditis, aminoglycosides are frequently used in clinical practice. METHODS:As our study population, we included subjects fulfilling the modified Duke cri...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Lemonovich TL,Haynes K,Lautenbach E,Amorosa VK

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In some industrialized countries reemergence of tuberculosis has been recorded. Most cases are thought to be caused by reactivation of infections that had been acquired many years before, but in some geographical areas up to 40% of diagnosed infections have been estimated to be newly acquired, based on the results of ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Nastasi A,Mammina C

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Cryptococcal meningitis is a potentially fatal fungal infection associated with a significant attributable morbidity and mortality, especially among HIV/AIDS patients. The first-line therapy for the treatment of this clinical entity is the combinatory therapy of amphotericin B plus flucytosine. However, the hig...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Villanueva-Lozano H,Treviño-Rangel RJ,González GM,Hernández-Rodríguez PA,Camacho-Ortiz A,Castillo-Reyna L,Galindo-Alvarado SG,Martínez-Reséndez MF

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of thyroiditis due to Brucella melitensis are reported. Both occurred in foreigners working in Switzerland and presented with characteristic symptoms of thyroiditis which masked those of brucellosis. Cultures were diagnostic. One patient had concomitant thyroid malignancy. Both showed normal thyroid function...

journal_title：Infection

authors： von Graevenitz A,Colla F

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Susceptibility to HIV-1 infections is, beside other factors, determined by individual host genetic variants like HLA class I alleles, CCR5 and CCR2 variants and levels of CCR5 binding chemokines. A new approach to determine the individual risk of acquiring an HIV infection or to estimate the disease progression could ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Jülg B,Goebel FD

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum and sputum concentrations of ampicillin or amoxycillin were measured in patients admitted to hospital for acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis with purulent sputum. Mean peak serum levels of nearly 12 mg/l were found after 1600 mg bacampicillin (mean peak level in sputum 0.85 mg/l). The serum and sputum con...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Davies B,Maesen F

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As perioperative prophylaxis for major orthopedic operations 81 patients were given the fixed combination of ampicillin (1 g)/sulbactam (0.5 g) or cefotiam (2 g) as short infusions. The three beta-lactams were rapidly distributed into the different tissues and their pharmacokinetic profiles were found to be very simil...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Wildfeuer A,Mallwitz J,Gotthardt H,Hille E,Gruber H,Dahmen G,Pfaff G,Göbel C

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The agar diffusion method was used to test the antibacterial efficacy of cefaclor against bacterial strains isolated routinely from patients in two hospitals in Berlin. A comparison was made with the efficacy of oxacillin, azlocillin, amikacin, gentamicin, ampicillin, co-trimoxazole, tetracycline, penicillin, cefazoli...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Wagner J,Hahn H

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Loxoscelism is an envenomation due to a bite by spiders of the genus Loxosceles, very well known on the American continent but unrecognized in Europe. CASE REPORT:We report the case of a 36-year-old woman, without any medical history or treatment, who went to a University Hospital in the South of France, fo...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Rubenstein E,Stoebner PE,Herlin C,Lechiche C,Rollard C,Laureillard D,Sotto A

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an emerging cause of autochthonous-acute-hepatitis and acute-on-chronic-liver-failure in western countries. Treatment is not routinely used, despite ribavirin has a good antiviral effect. In vitro sofosbuvir inhibits HEV replication, but clinical data are lacking. CASE REPORT:We...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Biliotti E,Franchi C,Spaziante M,Garbuglia AR,Volpicelli L,Palazzo D,De Angelis M,Esvan R,Taliani G

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis with primers for the pp65, a-sequence, glycoprotein B, and major immediate early genes of human cytomegalovirus (CMV) was used to study five congenitally-infected infants and their CMV-infected family members. Family members excreting CMV included three mothers and two siblings...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Souza IE,Gregg A,Pfab D,Dawson JD,Benson P,O'Neill ME,Murph JR,Petheram SJ,Bale JF Jr

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal resistance is caused by an acquisition of intrinsically resistant species, by selection of resistant strains from a population or by mutation of an initially susceptible strain. According to different classes of antimycotics there are different resistance mechanisms: differences in the uptake mechanisms, drug t...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Bernhardt H,Zimmermann K,Knoke M

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine whether changing from a tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF)- to a tenofovir alafenamide fumarate (TAF)-containing regimen is correlated with weight changes in a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive adult cohort. METHODS:Retrospective analysis was conducted of data gathered from routine care...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Gomez M,Seybold U,Roider J,Härter G,Bogner JR

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Raoultella ornithinolytica is not well known as a clinical pathogen. We performed a retrospective review of R. ornithinolytica bacteremia to investigate its clinical features, antimicrobial susceptibility, and overall patient outcomes. METHODS:R. ornithinolytica bacteremia cases were collected from an electron...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Chun S,Yun JW,Huh HJ,Lee NY

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is recognized as one of the major causes of infections in humans occurring in both the community and the hospital. Up to now one of the most serious aspects as far as treatment of S. aureus infections is concerned is resistance to methicillin, which in clinical terms indicates resistance to all b...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Hryniewicz W

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has dramatically changed over the last decade by the emergence of community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA). Recent studies indicate that these strains have already spread to hospitals. To evaluate if SCCmec type IV and Panton-Valentine leukoci...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Strandén AM,Frei R,Adler H,Flückiger U,Widmer AF

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a randomized clinical study, 61 hospitalized men were examined to test the local tolerability and antimicrobial efficacy of antiseptic treatment of the genitals with povidone iodine versus octenidine hydrochloride solution. Antibacterial efficacy was established by comparing the total aerobic bacterial colony count...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Rudolph P,Fritze F,Reimer K,Klebingat KJ,Kramer A

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00